Improvement in pin tickets or tags



E. A. G. ROULSTONE. Pin Ticket or Tag.

No. 220,772. Patented Oct. 21,1879.

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-UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

EDWARD A. G. ROULSTONE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PIN TICKETS OR TAGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 220,772, dated October 21, 1879; application filed September 16, 1878.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD A. G. ROUL- STONE, of Boston, in the county'of Sufi'olk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements inPin Tickets or Tags, of which the following is a specification.

My presentinvention relates to pin-tickets, so called, or tickets for marking goods, which are provided with rigid metallic points to enter the material and be bent down upon the opposite side from the ticket of pasteboard or other suitable material, and a metallic wire or strip, the body of which incloses or grasps the ticket upon both sides, while its ends or points project laterally from such ticket, for purposes .before premised.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are perspective views representing the metallic fasteners with the ticket or tag applied thereto. Fig. 1 is aview from the front, and Fig. 2 is a View from the rear.

The fastener is composed of a single piece, B, of metal-wire in this instanceformed to have ears 0 G and prongs c c. The ticket A, which is such a ticket as is generally used to mark clothes and other goods, is held to the fastener by the ears O, which overlap the edges of and are bent down upon the ticket, while the body of the fastener extends across the under side of the ticket, which is thus held securely between the parts 0 O.

By means of the prongs c c the fastener is secured to the goods to be marked.

Under my invention the ticket is held tightly in place without being punctured, and the construction of the fastener is such that one ticket can be removed and replaced by another with facility, all that is needed being to raise the ears sufficiently to allow a ticket to be withdrawn from or entered between them.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A metallic ticket or tag fastener consisting of asingle piece of metal provided with prongs O O and ears 0 c, as and for the purposes set forth.

E. A. G. BOULSTONE.

Witnesses:

F. CURTIS, LoUIs A. OURTIs. 

